How Cloud Connect Replication Works

Tenants who plan to replicate their VMs to the cloud must configure replication jobs on their Veeam backup servers and target them at the cloud host. When a job starts, Veeam Backup & Replication performs the following actions:

The tenant starts a replication job. The Veeam backup server on tenant’s side sends a request to the cloud gateway to access the cloud host.

VM data from tenant’s side is transported via the cloud gateway to the cloud host. If the SP has several cloud gateways, VM data is transported via the least loaded cloud gateway being online.

In case of a disaster on the tenant's production site, when one or several VMs become corrupted, a tenant can fail over to VM replicas on the cloud host. To learn more, see Cloud Replica Failover And Failback.